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Showing posts with label engagement. Show all posts

1.3.11

One Year

Today we celebrated our 1-year anniversary of when Phil proposed!

Firstly, I can't believe it's only been a year. It feels like aaaages ago, in a good way. I feel so blessed and lucky to be married to my lover and best friend. Phil is the MOST wonderful man anyone could ever ask for! Being married to him is the best thing ever. Better than cheesecake.

Secondly, our anniversary was actually yesterday, but we sorta forgot and had a whole group of people over and I made Mexican food. It was super awesome and so much fun having friends over but not the romantic evening that we had been planning for. So we celebrated today!

The Mister finished work early so he could come home and spend some time together. He surprised me with some gorgeous flowers and strawberries. YUM!

Date Night! - The Flowers and Strawberries

It was so unexpected and so nice! I can't stop looking at the flowers that are currently sitting in front of me on the coffee table.
They look so perfect sitting there.

Date Night! - The Flowers

We planned on going out to a restaurant for pad thai, my favorite! Since we are often tight on cash we seldom go out, so tonight was very special! I felt positively spoiled the whole time. It was fun getting dressed up and going to a nice restaurant. I wore my fancy pearls and everything.

Date Night!

We got an appetizer to share and we both got pad thai. I ordered coconut milk and it came in a coconut! A REAL COCONUT! I got really excited and the waitresses thought it was funny.

Date Night! - Thai Restaurant
Date Night! - Thai Restaurant
Date Night! - Thai Restaurant
Date Night! - Thai Restaurant
Date Night! - Thai Restaurant

Tonight was amazing. It could not have been better, and it was a wonderful time to spend some special time together and reminisce about our not-too-distant honeymoon. I love being married and I love being Mrs. van der Wel. I love just spending time with my husband.

Now if you will excuse us, I've made a cheesecake for me and Phil along with some homemade blueberry jam to spread on top.

I love you, Phil.

xoxo
Talia Christine

8.6.10

Engagement Photos


This last week we had our engagement photos taken by the lovely Miss Ashtin Paige. She is a dear dear friend of mine and was so pleased she agreed to take our photos. She did an incredible job! I feel like the photos represent us so well. I have so many favorites! Here are a few of them:















I love this man! I love these photos. Thank you, Ashtin!

My favorite ones are the picnic photos with the records.
Check out more of her work here http://www.ashtinpaige.com/

xoxo
Talia Christine


23.3.10

Oh Boy...

So I am often the worst blogger. I know this. I don't mind saying it. Honesty is key, right?

I went to Australia to visit my boyfriend, then we flew to New Zealand to visit his family and see the countryside. We're engaged!!



I wanted to share a few photos from the trip, just a quick rundown of some of the highlights.


In Australia we took pictures of our matching cat shirts. We are kind of awesome.

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There's a beautiful river that cuts through the city of Hamilton (where Phil is from). There's some parks along the riverside.

Hamilton, New Zealand

Yes, please.

Hamilton, New Zealand

Hamilton, New Zealand

Hamilton, New Zealand


We went on a road trip in NZ to this rabbit farm called the Shearing Shed!

New Zealand Road Trip





The country side was so gorgeous.



Angora Rabbit



The bunnies were cute too!! Phil bought me some angora fiber to spin something nice for myself. I'm so excited!!

I have tons more photos to upload still and there are lots more to see on flickr. You can browse through some of them here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/taliachristine/

I'm working hard on an etsy shop update! I will post more information on that soon.

xoxo
Talia Christine